{"id":4855,"date":"2014-12-20T18:32:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T05:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2016-06-21T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T17:03:10","slug":"low-vis-vest-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=4855","title":{"rendered":"Low-Vis Vest Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has come up with these grey-on-matte-black vests with ironic slogans, apparently as a riposte to well-meaning but flawed &#8216;vulnerable road users should wear hi-visibility clothing&#8217; campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re commercially available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/?attachment_id=4860\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4860\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TVDNdangerise\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TVDNdangerise-252x300.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Advocates for walking and cycling often feel that such campaigns are mis-directed when they forget to remind us that it&#8217;s when we are motorists that we present the biggest risk to the vulnerable, and it is when using our cars that we must take extra care in low-light conditions. \u00a0It&#8217;s a basic principle of risk management that you look at the source of the risk first!<\/p>\n<p>Research has shown that, particularly in daytime conditions, hi-viz clothing is less effective than many safety bodies seem to imagine (Tin Tin et al 2014; Koorey 2014).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><code>[print_gllr id=4863]<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has come up with these grey-on-matte-black vests with ironic slogans, apparently as a riposte to well-meaning but flawed &#8216;vulnerable road users should wear hi-visibility clothing&#8217; campaigns. We don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re commercially available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,21,22,5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5379,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}